Because I Want Desperately to Make Little Boys Who Don't Like Women to Feel Even More Infuriated by the Very Thought of Depicting Women Equally as Men Are...

...that title was originally going to be something purposefully rife with curse-words and other things to guarantee it was never even considered for the front page...but something of that length would work just as well, and considering I tend to fly off with an "f" word usually within the first paragraph of a blog I write anyway, I wouldn't get spotlighted...but it's better safe than sorry. Fuck those guys.

First, the blog in question is:Right here
It's a pretty simple enough blog. No great big "feminist agenda" that I can see. It's just a blog by a woman who wishes to see more representation in a franchise dominated by men...she's not demanding, mind you, just voicing her desire for it. But you would never guess how innocent this blog is if you were to go through the thousand plus comments presently written on it. Don't get me wrong though, there is some good stuff there too. I finally learned that the GTA series isn't just a series of games, but "crime sims" apparently. I had no idea Rockstar was trying to give everyone an accurate simulator for what it's like to be a criminal...despite no criminal ever in existence doing the shit that spans an entire GTA game in its entirety. Unless of course you think that running down people in a car and magically getting money for this while simultaneously avoiding the police, feds, and military merely by jumping into an apartment after taking tons of bullets to your entire body (even the head) without ever slowing down while not visibly wearing any body armor (which doesn't encapsulate your head, mind you) or most of the numerous guns you magically pull out of your sphincter, is wholly within a typical weekend of a given criminal. If you do think this, you are a fucking idiot.

And that seems to be the major argument...believability. Somehow...as if through some form of fairy magic, the descriptive I just wrote, is entirely believable...so long as it's a man doing all of those things. Within this obvious realm of fiction, in which no human is capable of doing the things described, only a man is believably capable of doing so...hence, a man is cast in the role. To put it another way: it's only possible to do what is impossible, if you have a penis. This is the argument that has the most backing to it.

Argument two, may actually have the most validity. "I don't wanna play as a girl, because I'm a man." This is perfectly fine, until you realize that these are the same arguments being used by the same assholes saying that one shouldn't bitch just because there aren't playable females in the game. So apparently, while their own personal motive to play as a character who shares a sex is valid, it's invalid to ask for or even desire the same if your own isn't represented. So, hypocrisy. I'm entitled to get what I want, but you can go fuck yourself because I don't want you to have that.
The other side of this argument stems from identification, of being able to identify with the character. In no way, shape, or form, can a man identify with a female because of the rather vast number of things that are different (or rather, in the minds of those gathered there, the many things a man can do that a woman simply can not...factually. I did request a list of all those things which a man can do which a woman can under no circumstances do as well, already giving them a starter with the creation of sperm, but I have yet to hear back. I'm sure we'll see a nice bullet-point presentation shortly) between the two. Indeed. We are quite different. No matter how impossible it is for a male to identify with a female even if they are eerily similar for the exception of plumbing, it will always be vastly more easy to connect with a mass-murdering, thieving, psychopath. Yup. I don't get chicks, but I sure get crazy ass criminal dudes!

Argument three: "Artists shouldn't have to conform to what you want!"
This is also, in my mind, technically true. The only reason it's still fucking idiotic is because it has no bearing on the blog itself. She isn't demanding they change what they've already made, merely saying she wishes they'd do something for women to feel like they're represented when they already have three male lead characters. This is by far the least illogical argument, it just happens to be somewhat out of place.

Argument four: "Nobody wants to see little girly girls doing manly things!"
Made moot instantly by the number of people already arguing that they would like to actually see females in general doing things that for whatever reason are viewed as male-centric things...like killing people...yup...women have never nor will they ever kill any other people ever...everevereverevereverEVER!!! And certainly nobody wants to see it happen...but we all LOVE to see some violence as long as men are the perpetrators! BOY POWER!!!

Argument five: "Girls don't even make up 50% of gamers, because most of them only play phone games and facebook games. They aren't hardcore!"
Aside from the obvious fact that their opinion is unsubstantiated, does it really fucking matter? Even if a majority of half of the gamers were playing those sorts of games, who gives a fuck and what does that have to do with ANYTHING!? What this argument boils down to is that a minority shouldn't have a damn say. Well, lets take it further then, and suppose the greatest majority of game players were 27 year old, caucasian males. I guess every single character depicted in video games should surely mirror that, as it is the majority. So, fuck off blacks, yellows, reds, and browns, and anybody with gray hairs, or with no hairs (on their balls...er, genitals...no, balls, we already established that especially in this case, females shouldn't be represented), you shall not be represented how you'd like to be, because you have no right as you're in a minority that isn't worth "catering" to.

Argument six: "What do you do about picking up prostitutes?"
Lets get facts out of the way...male prostitutes exist...I really have no fucking clue how people think they don't. It is mind-boggling to me that ANY human being on the god damn planet can possibly believe they do not. I saw a comment which explained it as this: "Men aren't real prostitutes because they'll have sex with anybody anyway." The wording is off, and when I try and load the comments all the way back with this lovely Disqus we use, it risks blowing up my computer, so I'm not gonna fish it out for a proper quote.
First of all, the type of person he's describing I'd classify as a slut, not a prostitute. Prostitutes get paid for their time. Second, not all men are like that. I know of at least one who isn't. Third...what a fucking idiot.
Male prostitutes are in fact real, regardless of how less common they are, they exist, so lets just get on with it. Even if they didn't, who says the female lead couldn't be a lesbian, or maybe just disinterested in prostitutes...you know...because they're kinda fucking dirty. I mean honestly now, HOW IMPORTANT is the fucking prostitute mechanic in these games anyway? I never even had a hooker in my car until San Andreas that I can remember, and that was because technically I was pimping! (don't judge, it was a mission...or...mini-mission...shut up!) Seriously, how much of a fucking importance is it to add a few male prostitutes that are all optional anyway? You don't have to defy reality (as if the games were fucking realistic to begin with, or as if they need to be, when it's all fictional) to add male prostitutes in any capacity, and even if they didn't, who gives a shit!? It has zero actual affect on the game.

There may be more, but honestly they all kinda derive from these same arguments, and all from the same pool of fucking blatant stupidity it's hard to keep track of them all. And so, in summation, to the people peddling these arguments as though they were the least bit appropriate or sensible, fuck yourself...oh and also sterilization before or after.

For a less offensive and more generally and genuinely educational/productive take on these things, see DTakes' blog over yonder!